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The Amherst news-times. (Amherst, Ohio), 1943-04-22

The Amherst news-times. (Amherst, Ohio), 1943-04-22 page 1

N Ihe MHERST EWS-11 IMES VOL XXV, NUMBER 17 AMHERST, OHIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1943 SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD i 4 ft? 9 On ner fie sew nd in tie air Amherst Soldiers and Sailors are Fighting lor Liberty MS' Local Men Are Around The World During the paTweek we have1 Following in his father's foot-uunns me v William J. Kreuck, son heard that Amherst men have f tv, of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kreuck of reached various parts of the ,j . ,u u o.,oi South Amherst, chose the Navy world in the past month. Several ...... , , j t j. i.. i. ; w serve his country in time of have reached India safely, two "V ' Persia, and one in the Somoa Is-; w' . , lands. Mrs. William Sprenger receiv ed a letter from her son, Donald : C. Mathcs, who is a machinist's mate, first class in the navy. He informed her that he has been transferred t o the Naval Station in the American Somoa Islands and is working i n a machine shop. "At least here I Don Mathes can tell vnn whprp T nm anrl what o. ,ii . , ,u I we are doing, wrote the Am-! herst man. "I can even receive packages out here for they are! sent direct to the station. We have a nice place here, a good reading room with radio and vic-trola. The food is good, too." Air mail letters reached Don regularly, he wrote. His new address is at the News-Times office should friends wish it. IN INDIA Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Monger of South Main-st received word from their son Pfc. Geoffrey Monger that he had arrived safely in India recently. Pvt. L u d w i g Stec, husband oil Mrs. Susan Gam-bish Stec ofMi-lan-av, and Pvt. Ed. Diedrick, husband of Mrs. Helen Jackson Diedrick of Am- Pfc. Monger herst are also among the soldiers who went across in the same convoy with Pfc Monger. They, too, are in India and have been able to write home. They are with a Medical Detachment. Monger wrote that they are housed in stone buildings with ten men to a room. Food is excellent and after landing a good shower and a bath did wonders for the fellows, even though the country was hot, dry and dusty. To get back to the food. A sample of what the boys had will make the folks' tongues back home water. For breakfast on a Sunday morning hotcakes, syrup, butter (plenty), bacon, jam, bread and coffee and for dinner they had steaks. Pvt. Stec who has been pretty handy with the scissors is finding the barber business quite well. Ever since he has been In the army he has been occupying his free hours trimming , his buddies' hair. He has acquired quite a business. He wrote his wife that in India he is still snipping off hair when he isn't busy in the med- Fvt, 8 tee leal supply room. Pvt. Diedrick wrote his wife that' he Is in the best of health and finds India a strange country. The natives are only tod willing to work for the American soldiers for they believe all Americans are very rich. They're willing to do a lot for a small amount of money. It' is interesting to note that at the present there are three Amherst high school graduates of the class of 1933 now living in India. Pvt. Monger has Joined two of bis classmates, Cpl. Jas. Ehrman and Mrs. William Whittemore (Jennie Frederick) who is living there with her missionary husband. Perhaps if the latter two can learn of the newcomers' whereabouts, they may be iwn i ii ixf mw.ijiiw iij t ': i u 111.11-- "aJ jLieut - Krueck KeePs UP ' With Father's Record i apprentice seaman, in the Re- serves the South Amherst man I has earned his commission the hard way and at the same time enjoyed doing so. He has seen quite a bit of the world during the three years that he has been with the navy having been stationed in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, before the war. his schooling at received three navy school, as a reserve .... . , midshipman at a naval academy, ' 1 TvT 1 T .1 retl c ..1 1 i- t"v" " v"u" " 1 , VT new iun, xuiuue laiuuu uiiu me ; Fleet Fire Control School at San- Diego, Cal. His ship training was done aboard the battleship, Arkansas.Following his time spent on the Virgin Islands, Lt. Krueck was on a short tour of duty in the North Atlantic Patrol. At1 the present he is with an Outgoing Unit at Norfolk, Virginia. His father, Mr. Krueck, whom many readers know as one of the rural route postmen, was a navy man from 1903 through World War I. He also served as lieu tenant during the war but as much as he wanted to see active duty he was prevented because of an assignment as instructor at the Great Lakes Naval Station, Finds Hospital Good For Writing Pvt. Merrill Walker, former post office clerk in the local post- office had to go to the hospital in order to find time to write to his friends back home. "They keep us so darned busy here that I had to go to the hospital before I could find time to write you," related Pvt. Walker in a letter to the editor the other day from Camp Wolters, Texas. "I'm here for an operation, I guess. I hurt my leg about two weeks ago on the camp's obstacle course. "The hours here have been long and the training has been tough but it's beginning to show results. "We finished up on the range last Thursday. We fired the new Garand rifle or M-l's as we call it. Out of about 250 men in "C" Company, I had third highest score. I qualified as a Sharpshooter with a score of 253. For third place I get a medal and a carton of cigarettes. And I don't smokel "I sure miss the old home-town and all my old friends I used to see every day. "The State of Texas is Okay but I'll take Ohio any day. At least there we don't have the extreme heat and the sand storms we've been having here. "I've nine more weeks of basic training before I move on to another camp or to combat duty. If all the boys are being trained like we are here at Camp Wolters this war will be over soon. Slincerely, Pvt. Merrill Walker." The address of the former post-office clerk is Pvt. Merrill O. Walker, Co. "C", 62nd Bn., 1st Plat., Camp Wolters, Texas. . ARRIVED HOME Cpl. James Short arrived home last week for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Short of South Main-st He has been at the Shenango Replacement Depot, Greensville, Pa. able to hold a 1943 Alumni meeting in India this. year. S. ' Ml He Navy Star Issued To Amherst Man The Navy Star, a medal issued for gallantry in action, was awarded to Lieut. Roy E. Schaef-fer recently. The medal was sent to Roy's home here for safe keeping. For what specific action the award was made is not known, but the Amherst naval lieutenant has been in a number of engagements with the J a p a ne s e since Pearl Harbor. His ship has been in the Solomon Island n e i g h b orhood since last August.Wherever Lt. Schaeffer is there is good hunting, according a letter home. "We have had a pretty good time here," he wrote. "Some of the best hunting in the world. Wild turkeys, pigs, goats, deer, ! pheasants and quail. One day's bag was 49 quail, 4 wild turkeys, j 2 pigs, 1 goat, 20 pheasants, and 6 deer. There are more pheasants and quail here than you can shake a stick at. Rabbits are so plentiful they don't even bother to shoot them. And the deer are as plentiful as the rabbits back home. "They have wonderful fishing also. It certainly is a hunting and fishing paradise," Roy wrote. But all is not fun for the navy men in the South Pacific, for Roy's letter also stated that this was the first time the sailors had more than 12 hours shore leave in over ten , month's. So lt sounds as if they earned their brief vacation. Lieut. Schaeffer has been in a great many engagements with the Japs. His ship was in the convoy that landed the first marines on the Solomon Islands last August. At that time he was in charge of one of the landing groups. At another time his convoy was attacked by seven Jap bombers. All seven enemy planes were shot down, and the ship on which Roy is stationed was credited with the destruction of two of them. When the war is over, and he returns home, he will have a great many harrowing stories to tell which are kept secret by censorship rules now. Bob Nickel Going Thru Boot Training Recently inducted into the U. S. Navy as an apprentice seaman, Robert B. Nickel, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Nickel of South Amherst, has reported to the U. S. Naval Training Station at Great Lakes for a period of basic training.In the 12 weeks of training to follow he will be transformed from a civilian into a trim Bluejacket. ' His program will consist of instruction in seamanship, military drill, an indoctrination into navy customs and procedures, and participation In a physical hardening program. Following the aptitude tests and a personal Interview he will be assigned to a particular type of duty for which he is best suited. Upon completing his 12-week course Nickel will receive a nine-day leave. Bob Fuhrman Promoted To Staff Sergeant Recently Robert Fuhrman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Fuhrman of Tenney-av has been promoted from Sergeant to Staff Sergeant, it was learned this week. Sgi Fuhrman is stationed at Camp Atterbury, Ind. BUT U. S. WAR BONDS 1 1 to Students Buy jeep In One Sale If the results from the school students buying war stamps and bonds should indicate how their parents will cooperate in buying war bonds during the second War Loan Drive, Amherst will not have any worries of reaching her quota and going over the top. The students are using the slogan, "Buy a Jeep for the Boys in the Service" and Tuesday, the regular Stamp Day, the senior high students alone purchased enough war stamps to buy a $900.00 jeep. They collected $925.85 and the first five grades and junior high combined purchased enough to buy more than a half a jeep. The grades had a total of $321.95 and the Junior High, $338.30 at the end of their day. The sales for the first three weeks of April total $2,267.10, April 6 sales bringing from the I first five grades $164.95, junior high, $45.95, senior high $75.20 making a total of $286.10. April 13 sales totaled $394.90 with the ; grades purchasing $335.75, junior high, $41.15 and senior high $18.00. VISITED HUSBAND Mrs. Clarence Frederick returned home after spending sev- eral days with her husband, Pfc. Clarence Frederick who is at a port of embarkation. Easter Holy Week Services will continue today, Maundy Thursday, throughout the churches in Amherst. During the final week of Lent, ministers of the local churches have announced that attendance -f Lenten devotions have been 'gratifying. They believe people are realizing more each day how much it means to put their trust in God and more so during these perilous days. This Easter the churches all over the nation will be filled with people praying for those away from home and for their safe re turn. With each day of battle bringing the war closer to our homes by word that some dear relative or friend has lost his life for his country, the folks are realizing what their prayers for the soldiers of war means. The Community Church Service continue today and tomorrow. This evening the combined services of the Methodist, Evangelical, Congregational andEvangelical-Reformed churches will be held in the Congregational church with Rev. C. C. Vander-sall addressing the people on "Through Cross-Bearing." Good Friday services will be from 1:30 to 3:00 p. m. in the Evangelical church with Rev. C. L. Allen, district superintendent of Evangelical churches, the speaker. Amherst stores will close from 1 to 3 during these services. The church news of all the churches for the remainder of Holy Week and Easter has been announced as follows: ST. JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC Rev. James H. Smith Holy Thursday 6:30 and 7:30 a. m. Holy Communion.8:00 a. m. High Mass. 7:30 p. m. Holy Hour. Sermon: 'The Charity of Christ" Good Friday 8:00 a. m. Veneration of the Cross (the only day in the year when Mass is not said. Thru the Man the Living Christ is brought down upon the altar. On Good Friday we commemorate the death of Christ as the Saviour of mankind.) 3:00 p. m. Stations of the Cross. 7:30 p. m. Stations of the Cross, sermon and Veneration of the Cross. Sermon: "The Supreme Sacrifice." Holy Saturday 7:00 a. m. Blessing of Paschal Candle and Baptismal Font. 8:19 a. m. High Mass and Ves pers. 4:00 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. Con fessions. Easter Sunday 6:00 and 8:00 a. m. Low Mass. Confident Bond Will R Local People Are Urged To Be At Meeting First Aiders, auxiliary policemen, firemen, auxiliary firemen, messengers, air raid wardens and all other units of Civilian Defense and the general public are urged to attend an important meeting in the public school Monday evening.Fred Moore of Rocky River will be the guest speaker at this time and will demonstrate the use of blood plasma and how it is made. Many of the people have read about the plasma but that is as far as they have gone with it. The importance of it can not be expressed enough according to our local doctors. More than once through their experience the plasma has saved a patient's life. And now in time of war it is vitally important to the boys facing death on the battlefront. They are hoping that this meeting will be well attended and that it will carry its set message.Motion pictures on first aid en-titled"Until the Doctor Comes" will also be shown. The meeting will be held at eight o'clock. in ffllpnrrlfw 10:00 a. m. High Mass and Bene diction. Sermon topic: "The Newness of Life." "Therefore let us keep festival, not wiffi the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the ujileayened bread of sincerity and truth." (I Cor. V, 8.) FIRST EVANGELICAL Rev. Coburn C. Vandersall Friday 8:00 p. m. Holy Communion service will be held. Rev. C. L. Allen of Fremont will give a brief Communion sermon and then lead in the new Evangelical Communion ritual. Easter Sunday, the Sunday school will be at 9:30 with Clayton Springer in charge. The Easter morning service will be at 10:30. The minister will give the sermon. Baptism will be administered and members will be received into the church. Special Lenten offering boxes will be brought in, and the contents of these boxes will go towards the building fund. 7:30 p. m. Special program of music, to be brought by members of the choir and orchestra. ST. PETER'S EVANGELICAL Rev. C. E. Schmidt, Minister An Easter Sunrise Service will be held at 6:30 o'clock. New members will be received at this service and Holy Communion will be observed. The Easter Worship Service will be held at 10:30. Sermon topic: "He Is Alive!" Special Easter music will be presented by the church choir and the celebration of the Lord's Supper will be held at the close of the service. Here Is the opportunity to receive needed nourishment for the new life; here is the invitation for new consecration to the Lord and His service. You can help beautify the Easter services If you assist in supplying flowers to place around the altar. You will enjoy your plant all the more if you bring lt to the church In tribute to your Risen Lord. Congregational South Amherst Maundy Thursday service of Communion, Thursday night at 8:00 p. m.A service of quiet meditation and helpful fellowship with our Lord. Please come on time so the service need not be interrupted. Easter Sunday Community Sunrise Service at 6:30 a. m. in the Methodist church. The choral group will ting. 9:45 a. m. morning worship. each Local Goal "ihis is your way of beating the Axis. If you can't get up close enough to blow the treads off a Mark Six tank, buying an extra bond is at least the next best thing. '"liven though you are not able to leave your workbench, desk or farm, you can still drill holes in a Mitsubishi Zero with your extra dollars." That is the message bond salesmen carried into the homes, into the stores, and into the shops of Amherst and vicinity this week in their effort to sell Amherst's goal of $130,000 during the second Victory Loan drive that ends this month. Hummel Assists In 4-II Club Organization Mr. C. I. Hummel, county 4-H club advisor, was present at the local 4-H club meeting which was held in the home of Gerald Flock recently. The group was presented record books for the year of 1943 by Mr. Hummel. The boys also discussed the possibility of having a permanent meeting place. However, the next meeting will be held in the home of Edward Kelly. It was announced that there are now 35 members in the club. Prior to lunch games were enjoyed. The next meeting will be held May 3. Topic: "The Lord God Reign-eth."Reception of members and service of Baptism. CONGREGATIONAL Rev. E. J, Sanderson 8:00 Good Friday, the candle light Communion service. Cqme, meditate, pray and find strength. 7:00 a. m. Easter Sunday, Sunrise Service under the direction of the pastor. , 9:45 a. m. The church school meets with a special Easter program presented at this service. 11:00 a. m. The service of wor ship: "The Lord God Reigneth." Reception of members at this service. 7:00 p. m. Pilgrim Fellowship meets under the directiion of the pastor. ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN Rev. R. C. Bosse Special Easter services will be held at 8:00 a. m. A German Easter service will be held at 10 a. m. There will be no Sunday school service. The pastor will speak on the topic: "He Lives." "The empty tomb again proclaims the message, 'He is not dead! He is risen! He lives!' We need to remember that we do not have a dead Savior who can not help and bless us, but a living Savior who lives to bless His own, to forgive them their sins, to keep them, to guide them thru His Word, and on that last great day to raise them from death to the fullness of the joy of heaven. Christ through His suffering and death delivered us from sin and won the victory for us over death and hell. Through faith in Christ, His Easter victory Is our Easter victory. Thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ'." An English Good Friday ser vice with Holy Communion will be held Thursday evening at 7:30 p. m. and a German Good Friday service with Holy Communion will be held Friday evening at 7:30 p. m. Sermon topic: It is Finished." FOURSQUARE CHURCH Rev. Daniel E. Baser AAA Special Service Friday at 7:49 with Candle Light Communion Service with pageant The An swer of The Cross." Easter Children's program also In the morning. The message: The Living Christ" Service at 7:49: "Christ is King." Drive And the please of the salesmen . . . and saleswomen, too . . . was being answered, and answered in terms that Tojo, Hitler, Mussolini ad their minions can understand. Translated into terms of bullets, tanks, planes, it means that American soldiers in battle-scared Tunisia, and insect-infested Solomons, and everywhere else that the Stars and Stripes are carried by our armed forces, are going to have the implements necessary to carry this war right into the streets of Berlin and Tokyo. "I'm confident Amherst will reach its goal before the end of the drive," said Conrad Zilch, chairman of the campaign committee. "While we have not yet received any definite reports from any of our workers, they all seem well satisfied that, the goal will be reached. "But there is nothing certain, lt continues to require the hard work of every canvasser, and the cooperation of every man and BOND SALES RESULTS Goal $130,000.00 Bank Sales 69,998.75 Post Office Sales . 22,425.00 School Sales 2,267.10 Balance to Go ...$ 35,309.15 woman in the district We must y, and buy some more. -This dtjv$ is for bond sales over and above the regular 10 percent which our citizens have been buying. There can't be any laying down on the job, for if we do we will not be holding up our end of the job of winning (his war," said Zilch. The local campaign was given an extra boost this week when Amherst Eagles voted to buy another $2,000 in War Bonds. This increased the local Eagles bond fund to $20,000. FIVE GROUPS IN CANVASS Five groups are conducting the drive in Amherst They represent the Rotary and Noon Day Clubs, Amherst Business Men's . Association, School, and Business and Professional Women's Club. These committees consist of Harry Earl, C. L. Goodspeed, Rev. C C. Vandersall, Ludwig Thomas, Gust Nabakowski, Ralph Prittie, Dr. W. G. Schaeffer, George Fox, Mrs. Lucy Roemer, Edith Ehrman, Florence Ehrman, Mrs. Ray J e w e 1 1, Margaret Schneider, Thelma Mays and Robert Hub bard. In Brownhelm, the northern section is being canvassed by Elmer Love, and the south section by Norman Miller. Block leaders of South Am herst are making the canvass of their town. Mrs. Albert Rolll is chairman, assisted by Mrs. Myrtle Kolb, Mrs. Mildred Hyatt, Mrs. Lillian Roberts, Mrs. Nora Slack, Mrs. Bertha Witt, Mrs. Mable Anderson, Mrs. Alice Flowers, Mrs. Margaret Flowers, Mrs. Harold AUsop. This drive is the greatest drive In the history of the country. Every dollar it is possible to raise should be put into War Bonds now, Is the word pasted out by the Treasury Department EAGLES PLAN TO ELECT NEW OFFICERS Amherst Aerie of Eagles will have nomination of officers at an important meeting Monday night All members are urged to attend the meeting. It was announced that Monday, May 3 election of officers will take place from 12 noon until the meeting hour. If liberty is worth fighting for, it is worth paying forbuy War Bonds.

N Ihe MHERST EWS-11 IMES VOL XXV, NUMBER 17 AMHERST, OHIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1943 SANDSTONE CENTER OF THE WORLD i 4 ft? 9 On ner fie sew nd in tie air Amherst Soldiers and Sailors are Fighting lor Liberty MS' Local Men Are Around The World During the paTweek we have1 Following in his father's foot-uunns me v William J. Kreuck, son heard that Amherst men have f tv, of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kreuck of reached various parts of the ,j . ,u u o.,oi South Amherst, chose the Navy world in the past month. Several ...... , , j t j. i.. i. ; w serve his country in time of have reached India safely, two "V ' Persia, and one in the Somoa Is-; w' . , lands. Mrs. William Sprenger receiv ed a letter from her son, Donald : C. Mathcs, who is a machinist's mate, first class in the navy. He informed her that he has been transferred t o the Naval Station in the American Somoa Islands and is working i n a machine shop. "At least here I Don Mathes can tell vnn whprp T nm anrl what o. ,ii . , ,u I we are doing, wrote the Am-! herst man. "I can even receive packages out here for they are! sent direct to the station. We have a nice place here, a good reading room with radio and vic-trola. The food is good, too." Air mail letters reached Don regularly, he wrote. His new address is at the News-Times office should friends wish it. IN INDIA Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Monger of South Main-st received word from their son Pfc. Geoffrey Monger that he had arrived safely in India recently. Pvt. L u d w i g Stec, husband oil Mrs. Susan Gam-bish Stec ofMi-lan-av, and Pvt. Ed. Diedrick, husband of Mrs. Helen Jackson Diedrick of Am- Pfc. Monger herst are also among the soldiers who went across in the same convoy with Pfc Monger. They, too, are in India and have been able to write home. They are with a Medical Detachment. Monger wrote that they are housed in stone buildings with ten men to a room. Food is excellent and after landing a good shower and a bath did wonders for the fellows, even though the country was hot, dry and dusty. To get back to the food. A sample of what the boys had will make the folks' tongues back home water. For breakfast on a Sunday morning hotcakes, syrup, butter (plenty), bacon, jam, bread and coffee and for dinner they had steaks. Pvt. Stec who has been pretty handy with the scissors is finding the barber business quite well. Ever since he has been In the army he has been occupying his free hours trimming , his buddies' hair. He has acquired quite a business. He wrote his wife that in India he is still snipping off hair when he isn't busy in the med- Fvt, 8 tee leal supply room. Pvt. Diedrick wrote his wife that' he Is in the best of health and finds India a strange country. The natives are only tod willing to work for the American soldiers for they believe all Americans are very rich. They're willing to do a lot for a small amount of money. It' is interesting to note that at the present there are three Amherst high school graduates of the class of 1933 now living in India. Pvt. Monger has Joined two of bis classmates, Cpl. Jas. Ehrman and Mrs. William Whittemore (Jennie Frederick) who is living there with her missionary husband. Perhaps if the latter two can learn of the newcomers' whereabouts, they may be iwn i ii ixf mw.ijiiw iij t ': i u 111.11-- "aJ jLieut - Krueck KeePs UP ' With Father's Record i apprentice seaman, in the Re- serves the South Amherst man I has earned his commission the hard way and at the same time enjoyed doing so. He has seen quite a bit of the world during the three years that he has been with the navy having been stationed in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, before the war. his schooling at received three navy school, as a reserve .... . , midshipman at a naval academy, ' 1 TvT 1 T .1 retl c ..1 1 i- t"v" " v"u" " 1 , VT new iun, xuiuue laiuuu uiiu me ; Fleet Fire Control School at San- Diego, Cal. His ship training was done aboard the battleship, Arkansas.Following his time spent on the Virgin Islands, Lt. Krueck was on a short tour of duty in the North Atlantic Patrol. At1 the present he is with an Outgoing Unit at Norfolk, Virginia. His father, Mr. Krueck, whom many readers know as one of the rural route postmen, was a navy man from 1903 through World War I. He also served as lieu tenant during the war but as much as he wanted to see active duty he was prevented because of an assignment as instructor at the Great Lakes Naval Station, Finds Hospital Good For Writing Pvt. Merrill Walker, former post office clerk in the local post- office had to go to the hospital in order to find time to write to his friends back home. "They keep us so darned busy here that I had to go to the hospital before I could find time to write you," related Pvt. Walker in a letter to the editor the other day from Camp Wolters, Texas. "I'm here for an operation, I guess. I hurt my leg about two weeks ago on the camp's obstacle course. "The hours here have been long and the training has been tough but it's beginning to show results. "We finished up on the range last Thursday. We fired the new Garand rifle or M-l's as we call it. Out of about 250 men in "C" Company, I had third highest score. I qualified as a Sharpshooter with a score of 253. For third place I get a medal and a carton of cigarettes. And I don't smokel "I sure miss the old home-town and all my old friends I used to see every day. "The State of Texas is Okay but I'll take Ohio any day. At least there we don't have the extreme heat and the sand storms we've been having here. "I've nine more weeks of basic training before I move on to another camp or to combat duty. If all the boys are being trained like we are here at Camp Wolters this war will be over soon. Slincerely, Pvt. Merrill Walker." The address of the former post-office clerk is Pvt. Merrill O. Walker, Co. "C", 62nd Bn., 1st Plat., Camp Wolters, Texas. . ARRIVED HOME Cpl. James Short arrived home last week for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Short of South Main-st He has been at the Shenango Replacement Depot, Greensville, Pa. able to hold a 1943 Alumni meeting in India this. year. S. ' Ml He Navy Star Issued To Amherst Man The Navy Star, a medal issued for gallantry in action, was awarded to Lieut. Roy E. Schaef-fer recently. The medal was sent to Roy's home here for safe keeping. For what specific action the award was made is not known, but the Amherst naval lieutenant has been in a number of engagements with the J a p a ne s e since Pearl Harbor. His ship has been in the Solomon Island n e i g h b orhood since last August.Wherever Lt. Schaeffer is there is good hunting, according a letter home. "We have had a pretty good time here," he wrote. "Some of the best hunting in the world. Wild turkeys, pigs, goats, deer, ! pheasants and quail. One day's bag was 49 quail, 4 wild turkeys, j 2 pigs, 1 goat, 20 pheasants, and 6 deer. There are more pheasants and quail here than you can shake a stick at. Rabbits are so plentiful they don't even bother to shoot them. And the deer are as plentiful as the rabbits back home. "They have wonderful fishing also. It certainly is a hunting and fishing paradise," Roy wrote. But all is not fun for the navy men in the South Pacific, for Roy's letter also stated that this was the first time the sailors had more than 12 hours shore leave in over ten , month's. So lt sounds as if they earned their brief vacation. Lieut. Schaeffer has been in a great many engagements with the Japs. His ship was in the convoy that landed the first marines on the Solomon Islands last August. At that time he was in charge of one of the landing groups. At another time his convoy was attacked by seven Jap bombers. All seven enemy planes were shot down, and the ship on which Roy is stationed was credited with the destruction of two of them. When the war is over, and he returns home, he will have a great many harrowing stories to tell which are kept secret by censorship rules now. Bob Nickel Going Thru Boot Training Recently inducted into the U. S. Navy as an apprentice seaman, Robert B. Nickel, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Nickel of South Amherst, has reported to the U. S. Naval Training Station at Great Lakes for a period of basic training.In the 12 weeks of training to follow he will be transformed from a civilian into a trim Bluejacket. ' His program will consist of instruction in seamanship, military drill, an indoctrination into navy customs and procedures, and participation In a physical hardening program. Following the aptitude tests and a personal Interview he will be assigned to a particular type of duty for which he is best suited. Upon completing his 12-week course Nickel will receive a nine-day leave. Bob Fuhrman Promoted To Staff Sergeant Recently Robert Fuhrman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Fuhrman of Tenney-av has been promoted from Sergeant to Staff Sergeant, it was learned this week. Sgi Fuhrman is stationed at Camp Atterbury, Ind. BUT U. S. WAR BONDS 1 1 to Students Buy jeep In One Sale If the results from the school students buying war stamps and bonds should indicate how their parents will cooperate in buying war bonds during the second War Loan Drive, Amherst will not have any worries of reaching her quota and going over the top. The students are using the slogan, "Buy a Jeep for the Boys in the Service" and Tuesday, the regular Stamp Day, the senior high students alone purchased enough war stamps to buy a $900.00 jeep. They collected $925.85 and the first five grades and junior high combined purchased enough to buy more than a half a jeep. The grades had a total of $321.95 and the Junior High, $338.30 at the end of their day. The sales for the first three weeks of April total $2,267.10, April 6 sales bringing from the I first five grades $164.95, junior high, $45.95, senior high $75.20 making a total of $286.10. April 13 sales totaled $394.90 with the ; grades purchasing $335.75, junior high, $41.15 and senior high $18.00. VISITED HUSBAND Mrs. Clarence Frederick returned home after spending sev- eral days with her husband, Pfc. Clarence Frederick who is at a port of embarkation. Easter Holy Week Services will continue today, Maundy Thursday, throughout the churches in Amherst. During the final week of Lent, ministers of the local churches have announced that attendance -f Lenten devotions have been 'gratifying. They believe people are realizing more each day how much it means to put their trust in God and more so during these perilous days. This Easter the churches all over the nation will be filled with people praying for those away from home and for their safe re turn. With each day of battle bringing the war closer to our homes by word that some dear relative or friend has lost his life for his country, the folks are realizing what their prayers for the soldiers of war means. The Community Church Service continue today and tomorrow. This evening the combined services of the Methodist, Evangelical, Congregational andEvangelical-Reformed churches will be held in the Congregational church with Rev. C. C. Vander-sall addressing the people on "Through Cross-Bearing." Good Friday services will be from 1:30 to 3:00 p. m. in the Evangelical church with Rev. C. L. Allen, district superintendent of Evangelical churches, the speaker. Amherst stores will close from 1 to 3 during these services. The church news of all the churches for the remainder of Holy Week and Easter has been announced as follows: ST. JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC Rev. James H. Smith Holy Thursday 6:30 and 7:30 a. m. Holy Communion.8:00 a. m. High Mass. 7:30 p. m. Holy Hour. Sermon: 'The Charity of Christ" Good Friday 8:00 a. m. Veneration of the Cross (the only day in the year when Mass is not said. Thru the Man the Living Christ is brought down upon the altar. On Good Friday we commemorate the death of Christ as the Saviour of mankind.) 3:00 p. m. Stations of the Cross. 7:30 p. m. Stations of the Cross, sermon and Veneration of the Cross. Sermon: "The Supreme Sacrifice." Holy Saturday 7:00 a. m. Blessing of Paschal Candle and Baptismal Font. 8:19 a. m. High Mass and Ves pers. 4:00 p. m. and 7:30 p. m. Con fessions. Easter Sunday 6:00 and 8:00 a. m. Low Mass. Confident Bond Will R Local People Are Urged To Be At Meeting First Aiders, auxiliary policemen, firemen, auxiliary firemen, messengers, air raid wardens and all other units of Civilian Defense and the general public are urged to attend an important meeting in the public school Monday evening.Fred Moore of Rocky River will be the guest speaker at this time and will demonstrate the use of blood plasma and how it is made. Many of the people have read about the plasma but that is as far as they have gone with it. The importance of it can not be expressed enough according to our local doctors. More than once through their experience the plasma has saved a patient's life. And now in time of war it is vitally important to the boys facing death on the battlefront. They are hoping that this meeting will be well attended and that it will carry its set message.Motion pictures on first aid en-titled"Until the Doctor Comes" will also be shown. The meeting will be held at eight o'clock. in ffllpnrrlfw 10:00 a. m. High Mass and Bene diction. Sermon topic: "The Newness of Life." "Therefore let us keep festival, not wiffi the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the ujileayened bread of sincerity and truth." (I Cor. V, 8.) FIRST EVANGELICAL Rev. Coburn C. Vandersall Friday 8:00 p. m. Holy Communion service will be held. Rev. C. L. Allen of Fremont will give a brief Communion sermon and then lead in the new Evangelical Communion ritual. Easter Sunday, the Sunday school will be at 9:30 with Clayton Springer in charge. The Easter morning service will be at 10:30. The minister will give the sermon. Baptism will be administered and members will be received into the church. Special Lenten offering boxes will be brought in, and the contents of these boxes will go towards the building fund. 7:30 p. m. Special program of music, to be brought by members of the choir and orchestra. ST. PETER'S EVANGELICAL Rev. C. E. Schmidt, Minister An Easter Sunrise Service will be held at 6:30 o'clock. New members will be received at this service and Holy Communion will be observed. The Easter Worship Service will be held at 10:30. Sermon topic: "He Is Alive!" Special Easter music will be presented by the church choir and the celebration of the Lord's Supper will be held at the close of the service. Here Is the opportunity to receive needed nourishment for the new life; here is the invitation for new consecration to the Lord and His service. You can help beautify the Easter services If you assist in supplying flowers to place around the altar. You will enjoy your plant all the more if you bring lt to the church In tribute to your Risen Lord. Congregational South Amherst Maundy Thursday service of Communion, Thursday night at 8:00 p. m.A service of quiet meditation and helpful fellowship with our Lord. Please come on time so the service need not be interrupted. Easter Sunday Community Sunrise Service at 6:30 a. m. in the Methodist church. The choral group will ting. 9:45 a. m. morning worship. each Local Goal "ihis is your way of beating the Axis. If you can't get up close enough to blow the treads off a Mark Six tank, buying an extra bond is at least the next best thing. '"liven though you are not able to leave your workbench, desk or farm, you can still drill holes in a Mitsubishi Zero with your extra dollars." That is the message bond salesmen carried into the homes, into the stores, and into the shops of Amherst and vicinity this week in their effort to sell Amherst's goal of $130,000 during the second Victory Loan drive that ends this month. Hummel Assists In 4-II Club Organization Mr. C. I. Hummel, county 4-H club advisor, was present at the local 4-H club meeting which was held in the home of Gerald Flock recently. The group was presented record books for the year of 1943 by Mr. Hummel. The boys also discussed the possibility of having a permanent meeting place. However, the next meeting will be held in the home of Edward Kelly. It was announced that there are now 35 members in the club. Prior to lunch games were enjoyed. The next meeting will be held May 3. Topic: "The Lord God Reign-eth."Reception of members and service of Baptism. CONGREGATIONAL Rev. E. J, Sanderson 8:00 Good Friday, the candle light Communion service. Cqme, meditate, pray and find strength. 7:00 a. m. Easter Sunday, Sunrise Service under the direction of the pastor. , 9:45 a. m. The church school meets with a special Easter program presented at this service. 11:00 a. m. The service of wor ship: "The Lord God Reigneth." Reception of members at this service. 7:00 p. m. Pilgrim Fellowship meets under the directiion of the pastor. ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN Rev. R. C. Bosse Special Easter services will be held at 8:00 a. m. A German Easter service will be held at 10 a. m. There will be no Sunday school service. The pastor will speak on the topic: "He Lives." "The empty tomb again proclaims the message, 'He is not dead! He is risen! He lives!' We need to remember that we do not have a dead Savior who can not help and bless us, but a living Savior who lives to bless His own, to forgive them their sins, to keep them, to guide them thru His Word, and on that last great day to raise them from death to the fullness of the joy of heaven. Christ through His suffering and death delivered us from sin and won the victory for us over death and hell. Through faith in Christ, His Easter victory Is our Easter victory. Thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ'." An English Good Friday ser vice with Holy Communion will be held Thursday evening at 7:30 p. m. and a German Good Friday service with Holy Communion will be held Friday evening at 7:30 p. m. Sermon topic: It is Finished." FOURSQUARE CHURCH Rev. Daniel E. Baser AAA Special Service Friday at 7:49 with Candle Light Communion Service with pageant The An swer of The Cross." Easter Children's program also In the morning. The message: The Living Christ" Service at 7:49: "Christ is King." Drive And the please of the salesmen . . . and saleswomen, too . . . was being answered, and answered in terms that Tojo, Hitler, Mussolini ad their minions can understand. Translated into terms of bullets, tanks, planes, it means that American soldiers in battle-scared Tunisia, and insect-infested Solomons, and everywhere else that the Stars and Stripes are carried by our armed forces, are going to have the implements necessary to carry this war right into the streets of Berlin and Tokyo. "I'm confident Amherst will reach its goal before the end of the drive," said Conrad Zilch, chairman of the campaign committee. "While we have not yet received any definite reports from any of our workers, they all seem well satisfied that, the goal will be reached. "But there is nothing certain, lt continues to require the hard work of every canvasser, and the cooperation of every man and BOND SALES RESULTS Goal $130,000.00 Bank Sales 69,998.75 Post Office Sales . 22,425.00 School Sales 2,267.10 Balance to Go ...$ 35,309.15 woman in the district We must y, and buy some more. -This dtjv$ is for bond sales over and above the regular 10 percent which our citizens have been buying. There can't be any laying down on the job, for if we do we will not be holding up our end of the job of winning (his war," said Zilch. The local campaign was given an extra boost this week when Amherst Eagles voted to buy another $2,000 in War Bonds. This increased the local Eagles bond fund to $20,000. FIVE GROUPS IN CANVASS Five groups are conducting the drive in Amherst They represent the Rotary and Noon Day Clubs, Amherst Business Men's . Association, School, and Business and Professional Women's Club. These committees consist of Harry Earl, C. L. Goodspeed, Rev. C C. Vandersall, Ludwig Thomas, Gust Nabakowski, Ralph Prittie, Dr. W. G. Schaeffer, George Fox, Mrs. Lucy Roemer, Edith Ehrman, Florence Ehrman, Mrs. Ray J e w e 1 1, Margaret Schneider, Thelma Mays and Robert Hub bard. In Brownhelm, the northern section is being canvassed by Elmer Love, and the south section by Norman Miller. Block leaders of South Am herst are making the canvass of their town. Mrs. Albert Rolll is chairman, assisted by Mrs. Myrtle Kolb, Mrs. Mildred Hyatt, Mrs. Lillian Roberts, Mrs. Nora Slack, Mrs. Bertha Witt, Mrs. Mable Anderson, Mrs. Alice Flowers, Mrs. Margaret Flowers, Mrs. Harold AUsop. This drive is the greatest drive In the history of the country. Every dollar it is possible to raise should be put into War Bonds now, Is the word pasted out by the Treasury Department EAGLES PLAN TO ELECT NEW OFFICERS Amherst Aerie of Eagles will have nomination of officers at an important meeting Monday night All members are urged to attend the meeting. It was announced that Monday, May 3 election of officers will take place from 12 noon until the meeting hour. If liberty is worth fighting for, it is worth paying forbuy War Bonds.